Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perceived as someone who can't do something." Thomas also mentions that Wilson was upset about the disappointing reception for Imagination. Despite generally kind reviews (the consensus, shared here, is that the multitracked vocals, all by Wilson, are stunning but that the music suffers from a rote adult-contemporary sheen), the album debuted weakly at 88 on the Billboard 200 and dropped off quickly. "Brian wanted a No. 1 record," Thomas says. "Not that he was depressed--it more ticked him off than anything...
...world become just like Ellis describes--one of sheen and brands? The temptation is to respond to Glamorama in a superficial way, merely enjoying the great lines and the action, not seeing it as real. And Ellis, for all his critique of style, is a master of it, using especially cutting lines to describe Victor's shallowness. As one character says, Victor thinks the "Gaza Strip is a particularly lascivious move an erotic dancer makes", while Alison tells him "the only pet you ever owned was the Armani Eagle...
David Kendall was a natural choice: unlike Robert Bennett, Clinton's garrulous lawyer in the Jones case, Kendall was Hillary in a gray suit, polished to a smooth, tough sheen, fast on his feet, discreet and unflinching under pressure. Hillary viewed him as that rarest ally, "someone I could count on and trust implicitly," the First Lady told TIME in an interview...
...doubtless imagine just how strenuous an effort--much of it shot in raked angles and presented in quick cuts by director Tony Scott--is required of Dean to get his life back and his tormentors chastened. You can probably imagine, as well, the gleam, sheen and extensiveness of the high-tech machinery that a well-endowed bureaucracy can deploy to torment a citizen on which its baleful eye has fallen. You may even be able to predict the chipper amorality of the techies manning the keyboards and terminals. What do they care about ends when the means...
...Center in West L.A. Krav Maga classes are also offered in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia, but Levine's center is the most comprehensive teaching facility in the country, drawing not just students, corporate types and the Hollywood crowd but also soldiers and cops. (Charlie Sheen's bodyguards are said to be versed in the ways of Krav Maga.) Institutional clients include federal agencies, SWAT teams and more than 100 police departments...